{"title":"Robin Moger","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"banipal-40-libyan-fiction","title":"Banipal 40 – Libyan Fiction","description":"Banipal's Editor Samuel Shimon writes: \"This is Banipal's 40th issue, and what an amazing coincidence that it should be dedicated to the celebration of Libyan literature at such an extraordinary historical moment in the Arab world when the region is witnessing a chain of uprisings and revolutions against dictatorial and corrupt regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and, finally, Libya.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We at Banipal are very proud of this special issue on Libyan fiction, and with it announce our absolute solidarity with the Libyan people in their aspiration to democratic rule and the exercising of all their rights, the first of which are to express their thoughts and the abolition of all forms of censorship on audio-visual media and literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Libyan authors are: Ghazi Gheblawi, Wafa Al-Bueissa, Hisham Matar, Ibrahim al-Koni, Mohammed Mesrati, Razan Naim Moghrabi, Mohammed al-Asfar, Ahmed Fagih, Giuma Bukleb, Omar el-Kiddi, Saleh Snoussi, Najwa Binshatwan, Omar Abulqasim Alkikli, Azza Kamil al-Maghour, Ibrahim Ahmidan, Redwan Abushwesha, Mohammed al-Arishiya, Mohammed al-Anaizi. There is also profile on Ali Mustafa al-Musrati.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition, there are fiction writers from Morocco (Abdelkarim Jouiti) and Oman (Jokha al-Harthi), an excerpt from a memoir, just published, by Abdo Wazen, one of Lebanon's major poets, and an interview with Alawiya Sobh, one of the Arab world's finest women novelists. Plus book reviews and Books in Brief.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040840544,"sku":"2224814615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_319aa952-018d-4f0f-9825-826f1eac748a.jpeg?v=1752237877"},{"product_id":"fromtherivertothesea","title":"From the River to the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new collection by Palestinian poet Samer Abu Hawwash was published in its original Arabic in the summer of 2024. The 24 poems are an intrepid literary journey into the genocide in Gaza, linking with Palestine’s long years of existential trauma, and documenting the universal human questions that so many are asking in today’s world. Living, as he has done since being born in Lebanon in 1972, in a diaspora crowded with fellow Palestinians, the poet shares with readers the depths of his turmoil and anguish, searing their attention to human pain from the first poem, “The Ruins”, with the image of a girl’s hand jutting up from cracks in the rubble, to the last, “The Scream” – the roaring voice of dust consuming all. In the poem, “Sitting in front of a TV screen, I watch the genocide”, the words he wants to say are torn from him, they’re not able to express what he wants to say; “language has become a torment”; senses are upturned, stupified, suspended, muffled, in a maze.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to possibly describe the deadly scenes, surreal visions, the revelations, nightmares, sounds, one after the other, except by reliving them? And thus the poet brings to his poems what one critic has called a “dictionary of war”, a lexicon that expresses a graphic poetic sensibility set in the midst of a war that is exterminating a people. Alongside the lexicon, a way of “seeing” anew the unspeakable horrors through the gazes, the glances, the closed, open, dead eyes of famished families, of fragmented little corpses, children whose gazes are frozen, stunned, dead, scornful, fixed, dazed. And each glance, each look, each stare is integral to the entirety of the tiny elements making up the lives and breaths of Palestine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a poetry collection so necessary for humanity today, in a perceptive and passionate translation by Robin Moger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Banipal Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":54411420828033,"sku":"9781913043506","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/files\/jpg_rgb_1500h_5e60f5ef-326c-4d1b-99d7-f1e7b948cc39.jpg?v=1752240652"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/robin-moger\/raed-wahesh.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}